Education

A 17-year-old high school senior at Wheatmore High School in Trinity, North Carolina, has had her senior class photo banned from the school’s yearbook because the student is holding her infant son. School officials told Caitlin Tiller, in April, just days before the yearbook was to be printed, they were pulling the photo because they ... read more »

A public school in NYC has announced their successful transition towards becoming the nation’s first public school to offer an all-vegetarian cuisine. According to NBC News on Wednesday, the shift from chicken nuggets and pepperoni to tofu and bananas  happened sometime in January, but the school was watching to see how the experiment turned out ... read more »

A Stockton, Calif., teacher and high school student were unknowingly recorded after the pair got into a fight which knocked the student to the floor last week. The student, Marlina Martinez, was allegedly angry after her math teacher took her makeup away because she was applying it during math class. Martinez immediately called her mother ... read more »

An Akron, Ohio, mother has filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, accusing local police of breaking her 13-year-old daughter’s arm. The lawsuit asks for a million dollars in punitive damages and $75,000 in compensatory damages. The lawsuit also alleged that the Akron Police Department tried to cover up the incident in a department wide conspiracy. The ... read more »

A middle school in Hermiston, Ore., was put under the microscope on Monday after parents started questioning a Zombie Survival Skills class they were offering to students at Armand Larive Middle School. According to Fox 12, some parents complained about the class theme, suggesting that the subject matter was too violent for kids middle school ... read more »

A NYC boy, 6-years-old, was struck and killed at a crosswalk while he was walking to school with his brother on Thursday morning shortly before 8 a.m. EST. The victim, Amar Diarrosova, was walking with his 9-year-old brother when they crossed the street together absent a crossing guard. A tractor trailer was reportedly turning onto ... read more »

A Mansfield, Ohio, substitute admitted on Tuesday that she kicked a 7-year-old student in the head last month while she was subbing at Sherman Elementary School. Erika Polk, 46, who has been a substitute in the Richland County area for almost 19 years, is no longer eligible to work as a sub in that county ... read more »

Two teens, a male and a female, allegedly lost several fingers during school sponsored tug-of-war game on Monday. The students attend South El Monte High School in southern California. The tug-of-war was a lunch time activity to celebrate homecoming. It is unclear how the student’s fingers were torn off. The female student plays soccer for ... read more »

An Akron, Ohio teacher is in hot water after she allegedly posted a picture on her personal Facebook wall, showing some of her middle school students with duct tape over their mouths back in Oct. 2012. The teacher has been on paid leave since Oct. 19. Melissa Cairns, a math teacher at the new Buchtel ... read more »

A teacher from Oxnard, Calif., hoping to get her job back after she was fired for being a former porn-actress, lost her appeal on Friday and will not be allowed back in the classroom.  Stacie Halas, 32, a science teacher at Haydock Intermediate School, was fired in April after students and teachers found pornographic videos ... read more »

In an effort to lower the cost of higher education and make it more available, California Governor Jerry Brown announced on Tuesday a new college online education pilot program.  The pilot program would allow students to take three entry-level mathematics courses and receive college credits. Brown said in a news conference, “We’re talking about our ... read more »

An Ohio school teacher who claims to be stricken with a pedophobia, an intense fear of young children, is suing the school district because she claims her disorder led to her forced resignation. Maria C. Waltherr-Willard, 61, had been a teacher for 35 years at the Mariemont School District in Marimont, Ohio, formerly teaching Spanish ... read more »

Parents and Newtown, Ct. residents met over the weekend to discuss the possibilities of what should become of the Sandy Hook Elementary school that remains closed as police continue to investigate the massacre that happened there on Dec. 14. According to the Orlando Sentinel, a public meeting was held on Sunday to hear opinions about ... read more »

California Assemblyman Dan Logue (R-Marysville) is proposing a new bill that would make the cost of obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree more affordable.  Assembly Bill 51 would create the Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program for students in California who want to major in science, technology, engineering, or math. Under the pilot program, high school students ... read more »

Surviving students of the brutal shooting at Sandy Hook elementary in Newtown, Conn. on Dec. 14, 2012 will be returning to school on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Students will be returning to a former middle school named Chalk Hill. The school has been out of commission for the last two years because enrollment was reportedly ... read more »